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Sunspot-space station conjunction

The Space Station was caught on film in orbit over sunspot 1057! 

Yesterday in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, astrophotographer John Stetson and his son Peter observed a very rare event–a sunspot-space station conjunction. 

“We knew when to look thanks to a prediction from CalSky,” says Stetson. “The International Space Station transited the solar disk in only 0.62 seconds. We managed to catch the station’s silhouette just as it was passing sunspot 1057.” Stetson has been photographing solar transits for years; he ranks this one as “the best yet.”  As far as we know, this is the first time the ISS has been observed in conjunction with a big sunspot. via http://spaceweather.com/.

If you are so inclined to track the ISS yourself you will have to go to http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/index.html.-  NASA no longer tracks it.

Heaven’s Above http://www.heavens-above.com/ does not appear to be so private.  It is hosted by Space Operations and Astronaut Training
DLR Space Operations, the central institution for spaceflight operations in Germany. http://www.dlr.de/rb/en/

The Expedition 23 crew members aboard the International Space Station were busy Thursday with an emergency Soyuz descent training drill and preparations for the arrival of space shuttle Discovery and the STS-131 crew…. Discovery and the STS-131 crew are targeted to launch to the station on April 5, bringing a multi-purpose logistics module filled with science racks for the station’s laboratories.  http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html 

The really cool thing would have been if the ISS snapped a picture up close of the solar spot. Even better, zoomed in on the coordinates and location of the photographers on earth and taken their picture, taking their picture!

Can they do that?  Terra Server http://www.terraserver.com/ and Google Earth http://earth.google.com/ are pretty good at it and so are governments.

The code named Kennan “Keyhole-class” (KH) reconnaissance satellites have been orbiting the Earth for more than 30 years. They are typically used to take overhead photos for military missions. The big question for a lot of people is: “What can they see?”

A KH-12 is a $1 billion satellite that resembles the Hubble Space Telescope, except it is looking at our planet. For security reasons, there are no published orbit schedules for the imagery spacecraft. They are supplemented by the 15-ton Lacrosse-class radar-imaging satellites…They have an imaging resolution of 5-6 inches, which means they can see something 5 inches or larger on the ground. These satellites probably can’t read your house number, but they can tell whether there is a bike parked in your driveway. http://science.howstuffworks.com/question529.htm

 

Sunspot 1057 is big but quiet. It does not have the type of twisted magnetic field that harbors energy for strong solar flares. Credit: SOHO/MDI

Current Sunspot Cycle Activity and Space Weather: http://prop.hfradio.org/

Sun Spots: 25 as of 03/25/2010 :: Flux: 88
X-ray Solar Flares:
6h hi [B3.0][0214Z 03/26] 24h hi [B7.3][0351Z 03/25] 

Planetary A-index (Ap): 5 | Planetary K-index (Kp): 2 (12 nT)
Solar Wind: 377 km/s at 5.0 protons/cm3, Bz is 3.0 nT
(Mar 26, 2010 at 1604 UT)

Translation- all is calm for now as no space weather storms are expected for the next 24 hours.

March 19, 2010 was a different story, at least for Earth.

This photo is a still taken from a NASA Allsky camera video taken of a meteor fireball over western Alabama on March 19, 2010. The meteor was about the size of a soccer ball and completely incinerated before reaching the ground, scientists say.

A bright fireball that lit up the sky above parts of Alabama last week  was caught by NASA cameras as it streaked over the southeastern United States. 

The fireball was caused by the death plunge of a meteor about the size of a soccer ball as it burned up in Earth’s atmosphere on Friday, March 19, at 11:19 p.m. local time while flying over western Alabama. Two NASA cameras, one based at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., recorded a the meteor’s fiery demise as it happened. http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/03/25/nasa-camera-catches-fireball-alabama/

Pretty good photo, eh?  A good explanation too, but what are all those other bright white lights on the right side of the earth?  UFO’s, asteroids, meteors, other satellites…?

The next meteor shower is the Lyrids on April 21. The Moon is just past first quarter, so it sets around 3 or 4 a.m., providing several hours of meteor watching before dawn. http://stardate.org/nightsky/meteors/

Keep looking up.

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The sky isn’t falling.  Or is it?   Putting aside the doom and gloom of economics and politics, tonight is the start of the annual Lyrids Meteor Shower http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyrids .  Every year in April the Earth passes throughout the tail of Comet Thantcher (C/1861 G1) resulting in the impression of shooting stars reigning down from the heavens.  At the same time, the crescent Moon and Venus will converge for a close encounter in the eastern sky. Viewed from some parts of the world, the Moon will pass directly in front of Venus, causing Venus to vanish.  Cool.

Venus is Vanishing?!?  I wonder if anyone would have believed Chicken Little if he would have made the same claim?  Chicken Little had a little credibility problem like so many bloggers who post theories and conspiracies, but I don’t happen to think that all of them are nuts- just a few.  So what’s the difference between foretelling of a One World Order, a 2012 doomsday, and Venus disappearing during a meteor shower?    

In the Bible, 2 Peter warned believers against false teachers, mostly mocking the prospect of Christ’s return.  1:12 – “I will always remind you of these things, even though you know them and are firmly established in the truth you now have.”  For the modern day response-  “The truth is out there.  You can ask, but it’s not my job to answer,” David Duchovny of X-files fame.

We have scientific truth and evidence for many things, but not everything.  It is in our inherent nature as humans to seek out the truth, weed out the bad squirrels and bury the nuts- so to speak. We need to listen to new ideas, but remember the old truths.  Sometimes the fortune tellers are correct and so are scientists Giampaolo Guiliani who predicted the recent Central Italy Earthquakes and noted physicist Dr.Giuliano Panza http://www.ictp.trieste.it/pages/organization/headsand.html  who continues seismic research. 

I am not as convinced over the Planet X Video -Nibiru seen here, http://www.planetxvideo.com/ or the Reptoid therory http://www.reptoids.com/basic_faqs.htm.  If you wish to have a career in alien politics then drop your current (worthless) college courses, pay the paltry $6000, and become an intergalactic diplomat today at http://www.panicwatch.org/article.pl?title=Exopolitics%20101

In the 4th Century, Julius Obsequies, wrote a book entitled, “Prodigorium liber, describing several reports of UFO-like phenomena.  “The sighting of strange objects in the sky may actually predate the emergence of modern man. Perhaps the earliest depiction of cylindrical objects resembling spacecraft, with what might be their extraterrestrial occupants, are those carved on a granite mountain and on rocks on an island in Hunan Province, China. They have been assigned a tentative age of 47,000 years, which puts them within the time-span of Neanderthal man, predating modern Homo sapiens.”  http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc154.htm  Perhaps China’s recent purchase of massive amounts of copper have to do with the aliens? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/5160120/A-Copper-Standard-for-the-worlds-currency-system.html

In an Excerpt from Reader’s Digest, “Mysteries if the Unexplained, Rense points out that many unusual celestial events were recorded in Japanese chronicles during the Middle Ages. As in Western society, such occurrences were usually considered “portents,” often resulting in panics and other social disturbances. http://www.rense.com/general7/ages.htm I doubt the meteors of the week will cause chaos, only a wish upon a star.

Bob Lazar, claims to have worked on an alien craft for the U.S. Government at Area 51 http://istina.rin.ru/eng/ufo/text/35.html ” He says he was required to read some 200 pages of briefing documents…information regarding the aliens and their technology, along with other supposed secret government projects, included the study of gravity drive, referred to as “Galileo”, looking back in time, known as “Looking Glass”, and a neutron beam weapon codenamed “Sidekick”…. under a program called “Project Overview”. ..aliens have been visiting Earth for a millennia and they refer to it as Sol 3. They claim that man is the result of 65 genetic corrections made over thousands of years. One group of aliens, referred to as “The Kids”, came from the Zeta Reticuli star system…”  Lazar currently owns http://unitednuclear.com/ , a plethora of legal nuclear and scientific products on line.

A tale of extra-terrestrial politics in The White House can be found here http://www.presidentialufo.com/  President Jimmy Carter has often been referred-to as the “UFO President” due to the fact that he publicly claimed to have had a UFO sighting prior to becoming president. Moreover, he was the only president on record to actually file a UFO sighting report related to his sighting. Thirdly, on at least one occasion while campaigning for president, Carter declared that, if elected, he would “make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public and scientists.” Many in the UFO community were optimistic that the election of Jimmy Carter would initiate a period of openness related to the UFO subject where the truth would be given to the public. It was not to be.

There are numerous accountings of astronauts reporting sightings in space and on earth, http://www.scribd.com/doc/4214138/Ufo-Sightings-by-Astronauts-Incredible-Declarations including an assertion that we stay off of the Moon. Apollo 14 astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell was among conference speakers at the 2009 X-Conference discussing why the Obama administration needs to declassify X-files held by various federal agencies and departments. “The annual event is unique among UFO conferences insofar as it features speakers who specialize in public policy aspects of evidence concerning UFOs and extraterrestrial life – an approach known as ‘exopolitics’.  This flagship event for the rapidly growing exopolitics movement will cast light on whether or not the Obama administration is poised to end a sixty year truth embargo on the extraterrestrial origins of UFOs.” http://www.niburu.nl/index.php?articleID=20614

President Ronald Reagan said in his speech to the United Nations-“Perhaps, we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences, worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.”

Some phenomena is inexplicable ( like how people actually voted for Obama) but, experts agree that the best time to look for the Lyrids Meteor is in the dark hours of April 23rd, before dawn where we can anticipate 10 to 20 visible meteors per hour. 

Photo http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/17apr_lyrids.htm

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